WO1997029195A2 - Human cancer antigen of tyrosinase-related protein 1 and 2 and genes encoding same - Google Patents

Human cancer antigen of tyrosinase-related protein 1 and 2 and genes encoding same Download PDF

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WO1997029195A2
WO1997029195A2 PCT/US1997/002186 US9702186W WO9729195A2 WO 1997029195 A2 WO1997029195 A2 WO 1997029195A2 US 9702186 W US9702186 W US 9702186W WO 9729195 A2 WO9729195 A2 WO 9729195A2
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  • the present invention relates to the area of cancer diagnostics and therapeutics including a cancer vaccine. More specifically, the invention relates to the isolation and purification of a novel cancer peptide and an alternative open reading frame DNA sequence encoding the cancer peptide. The invention further relates to the isolation and purification of a novel tumor antigen capable of acting as a tool in treating and preventing cancer and a DNA sequence encoding the cancer antige. The invention further relates novel cancer peptide encoded by an alternative open reading frame DNA sequence from within the tyrosinase-related protein 1 (TRP 1) gene. The invention also relates to novel cancer peptides from within the TRP2 gene. The invention further relates to methods of detecting and diagnosing and treating cancer and precancer in an individual.
  • TRP 1 tyrosinase-related protein 1
  • TIL tumor infiltrating lymphocytes
  • the second class of antigens represents differentiation antigens encoded by genes that are expressed only in melanocytes, melanomas, and normal retina.
  • MART- 1/Melan-A, gplOO and tyrosine are examples of this class. All these antigens are nonmutated self proteins. However, several mutated antigens were also identified to be recognized by T cells, including CDK 4, B-catenin and Mum-1. Identification of the antigenic epitopes recognized by T cells derived from the corresponding gene products is important not only for understanding the mechanism of immune response to self antigens, but also for developing new, effective immunotherapeutic strategies with these antigens or synthetic peptides for the treatment of patients with cancer.
  • TRP-1 or gp75 tyrosinase-related protein 1
  • the gene was found to be expressed only in melanoma, normal melanocyte cell lines, and retina, but not in other normal tissues tested. Therefore, this gene is a member of the second class of antigens including MART-1/Melan-A, gplOO and tyrosinase.
  • the present invention is the identification of a cancer peptide and the antigenic cancer epitope within the peptide encoded from an alternative open reading frame sequence within the TRP-1 gene which is specifically recognized by T cells.
  • the present invention encompasses cancer peptides encoded by the TRP-2 gene.
  • the cancer peptide of the invention is useful as an immunogen and vaccine to inhibit or prevent cancer in a mammal.
  • One object of the present invention is to provide a novel peptide and portions thereof recognized as a cancer antigen by T lymphocytes.
  • the cancer peptide of the present invention and the antigenic cancer epitope portion of the cancer peptide is encoded by an alternative open reading frame DNA sequence of a gene other than the open reading frame DNA sequence used to encode a normal protein or peptide from the same gene.
  • a gene falling within this ambit is the TRP-1 gene.
  • Another aspect of the invention is a tumor antigen encoded by an alternative open reading frame DNA sequence of a gene other than the open reading frame DNA sequence encoding a normal protein or peptide from the same gene.
  • a gene falling within this ambit is the TRP-1 gene.
  • Another object of the present invention are peptide fragments of TRP-1 , TRP-2 and variants thereof, which function as cancer peptides.
  • the tumor antigen of the present invention and the antigenic cancer peptides of the tumor antigen are encoded by all or a portion of the TRP-2 gene (SEQ ID NO:46).
  • TRP-2 is a member of the tyrosinase related gene family.
  • TRP-2 is presently identified as a new and potent tumor antigen capable of causing T cells to elicit an immune response.
  • One aspect of the invention are cancer peptides encoded by the TRP-1 gene,
  • TRP-2 gene or variants thereof which are useful as a cancer vaccine capable of protecting the recipient from development of cancer.
  • the present invention also relates to a method of administering the cancer vaccine in an effective amount to prevent cancers.
  • Another aspect of the present invention is a pharmaceutical composition comprising a cancer peptide or antigenic cancer epitope thereof alone or in combination with one or more immunostimulatory molecules.
  • Another aspect of the present invention is a pharmaceutical composition comprising the TRP-1 cancer antigen, alone, TRP-2 tumor antigen alone or in combination with one or more co- immunostimulatory molecules.
  • Another object of the present invention is a pharmaceutical composition comprising TRP-1 , TRP-2 peptides, or combinations thereof which stimulate T-cells to elicit an immunogenic response against tumors and cancers.
  • the cancer peptide or antigenic cancer epitope thereof may be provided as an immunogen or as a vaccine for prevention or treatment of cancer.
  • the pharmaceutical composition is useful in methods of treating or preventing cancer in a mammal. In the method of treatment, the pharmaceutical composition is administered to the mammal in an amount effective in preventing or inhibiting the cancer in the mammal.
  • Another object of the present invention is a method of generating cancer peptides and the antigenic cancer epitope within the peptide by translation of an alterative open reading frame DNA sequence from a gene other than the open reading frame DNA sequence encoding a normal protein from the same gene.
  • Yet another object of the invention is a method of detecting and identifying a cancer peptide gene product and portions thereof translated from an alternative open reading frame DNA sequence from a gene other than the gene product translated from the open reading frame DNA sequence encoding a normal protein or peptide.
  • a further aspect of the invention is the alternative open reading frame DNA or RNA sequence that encodes a cancer peptide or portion thereof and the use of the DNA or RNA sequence in methods of producing the cancer peptide or portions thereof.
  • the invention further provides oligonucleotides of the alternative open readings frame DNA or RNA sequence for use as probes or primers.
  • Yet another object of the present invention are nucleic acid sequences encoding
  • TRP-2 and fragments thereof, which, when expressed in a cell produce tumor antigens are included in a cell produce tumor antigens.
  • the present invention further provides vectors comprising an alternative open reading frame DNA sequence encoding a cancer peptide or portions thereof alone or in combination with a second DNA sequence encoding at least one immunostimulatory molecule.
  • the alternative open reading frame DNA sequence may be from the TRP-1 gene or variant thereof.
  • the invention also provides host cells transfected or transduced with a vector comprising an alternative open reading frame DNA sequence encoding a cancer peptide or portions thereof alone or in combination with a second DNA sequence encoding at least one immunostimulatory molecule.
  • the present invention further provides vectors comprising the TRP-2 gene or portions thereof encoding the tumor antigen alone or in combination with a second DNA sequence encoding at least one co-immunostimulatory molecule.
  • the vectors and host cells may serve as vaccines in which expression of a tumor antigen or cancer peptides results in the stimulation of tumor antigen specific T lymphocytes in a mammal immunized with the vaccine.
  • the invention also provides host cells transfected or transduced with a vector comprising DNA encoding a TRP-2 tumor antigen or variant thereof alone or in combination with a second DNA sequence encoding at least one co-immunostimulatory molecule.
  • the vectors and host cells may serve as vaccines in which expression of a TRP-2 tumor antigen results in the stimulation of antigen specific T lymphocytes in a mammal immunized with the vaccine.
  • the vectors and host cells may serve as vaccines in which expression of a cancer peptide or portion thereof results in the stimulation of cancer peptide specific T lymphocytes in a mammal immunized with the vaccine.
  • the invention provides a method of diagnosis cancer or precancer in a mammal by detection of a cancer peptide or portions thereof encoded by an alternative reading frame nucleic acid sequence of a gene other than the open reading frame nucleic acid sequence used to encode a normal protein from the same gene wherein the cancer peptide or portion thereof is recognized by T lymphocytes.
  • An alternative reading frame nucleic acid sequence may be from the TRP-1 gene or variant thereof.
  • the method comprises isolating cells, tissues or extracts thereof from a human and detecting the alternative open reading frame DNA sequence, RNA sequence or portion thereof encoding a cancer peptide or detecting the cancer peptide or portions thereof expressed by the alternative open reading frame DNA sequence or RNA sequence, wherein detection of/or increase in the alternative open reading frame DNA sequence, RNA sequence or expression product is indicative of preneoplasia and neoplasia.
  • the invention provides a method of diagnosis cancer or precancer in a mammal by detection of the TRP-2 tumor antigen, wherein the tumor antigen, cancer peptide or variant thereof is recognized by T lymphocytes.
  • the invention provides a method of diagnosis cancer or precancer in a mammal by detection of the tumor antigen encoded by the TRP-2 gene or fragments thereof wherein the tumor antigen is recognized by T lymphocytes.
  • Still another object of the invention is to provide a transgenic animal which has incorporated into its genome one or more copies of the alternative open reading frame
  • An alternative reading frame nucleic acid sequence may be from the TRP-1 gene or variant thereof.
  • the incorporation of the alternative open reading frame DNA sequence results in overexpression or expression of multiple forms or variants of the cancer peptide.
  • Such transgenic animals are useful for screening of therapeutic agents useful in treating cancer.
  • Still another object of the invention is to provide a transgenic animal which has incorporated into its genome one or more copies of the tumor antigen of the present invention thereof.
  • the incorporation of the TRP-2 DNA sequence or fragment thereof results in overexpression or expression of the tumor antigen.
  • Such transgenic animals are useful for screening of therapeutic agents useful in treating cancer.
  • the invention also encompasses antisense oligonucleotides which specifically target and bind to the alternative open reading frame nucleic acid sequence or a TRP-2 tumor antigen nucleic acid sequence and inhibit the expression of the cancer peptide or tumor antigen without adversely affecting the expression of the normal protein from the same gene.
  • Still another aspect of the invention are monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies reactive with the cancer peptide and antigenic cancer epitope thereof, including TRP-1 cancer peptide and TRP-2 tumor antigen for use in diagnostic and detection assays.
  • the monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies may be provided in the form of a kit alone, or along with other reagents commonly used in diagnostic and detection assays.
  • Fig. 1 A and IB show the location of the gp75 nucleotide sequence coding for the antigenic peptides recognized by TIL586.
  • Fig. IA shows the full length cDNA which comprises the 1584 bp open reading frame of gp75 is shown. Nucleotides are numbered from the start codon which translates into a protein consisting of a leader sequence and the mature gp75.
  • pcDNA776 is a partial cDNA of gp75 which lacks the first 246 nucleotide coding region and was isolated from a cDNA library using an assay based on its ability to stimulate GM-CSF secretion by TIL586 when co-transfecting COS-7 along with the HLA-A31 gene. A series of deletion constructs and PCR DNA fragments were made.
  • pD776A is a derivative of pcDNA776 after digestion with the Apal restriction enzyme.
  • Fig. IB shows GM-CSF release by TIL586.
  • GM-CSF secretion by TIL586 was measured after co-cultured with COS-7 co-transfected with the DNA fragments shown in Fig. IA and the HLA- A31 gene.
  • Control stimulator cells include 586mel,
  • Fig. 2 shows the nucleotide, amino acid sequence and open reading frames of the gp75 gene.
  • the partial nucleotide and amino acid sequences of the first 157 amino acids was shown from the start codon for translation of ORF1 (gp75).
  • the DNA fragment that conferred the ability to stimulate GM-CSF release from TIL586 is underlined.
  • Two putative start codons, ATG (254-256) and ATG (294-296) are in bold and may result in the translation of ORF2 and ORF3, respectively.
  • the peptide sequence recognized by TIL586 from ORF3 is in bold and underlined.
  • Fig. 3A and 3B show an antigenic peptide and translation of an alternative open reading frame.
  • Fig. 3A shows the location and length of PCR fragments amplified by PCR. DNA fragments were obtained by PCR amplification and were then cloned into the pCR3 expression vector. Substitution of ATG at positions 294-296 with ATC was made as described in Material and Methods.
  • Fig. 3B shows the testing of DNA fragments and mutation constructs to stimulate cytokine release from TIL586.
  • GM-CSF release assay was done as in Fig. 1.
  • Fig. 4A - 4C show characterization of the antigenic peptide recognized by TIL586. -
  • Fig. 4A shows GM-CSF release by the HLA-A31 restricted TIL586 when co- incubated with various stimulators. Transfection and cytokine assays were performed as Fig. 1 A and B. 586mel and 397mel were included as positive and negative controls for the reactivity of TIL586. The ORF3P peptide was incubated with 586EBV (A31 +) and T2 (non-A31) cells at a concentration of 1 ⁇ g/ml for 90 min.
  • TIL586 Stimulation of GM-CSF secretion by TIL586 significantly increased when co-incubated with autologous 586EBV and allogeneic 1510EBV (A31 +) cells pulsed with peptide ORF3P, but not when co-incubated with either 586EBV alone or T2 (non-A31) cells loaded with the ORF3P peptide.
  • Fig. 4B shows cytotoxic lysis of the target cells by TIL586.
  • 586mel (— ⁇ — ) and 397mel (— D— ) were used as positive and negative controls, respectively.
  • 586EBV B cells were incubated with ORF3P (pep) (—*—), with an irrelevant peptide (ipep) (— •— ) without peptide ( ⁇ ) and T2 cells pulsed with ORF3P (— O— ) as marked. After incubation, TIL586 was added and mixed with the target cells. Cytolytic activity of TIL586 was measured in a 4 h chromium release assay.
  • Fig. 4C shows titration of the peptide concentration to sensitize the target cells for lysis by TIL586. 586EBV cells were separately incubated with serial dilutions of
  • the cytolytic activity of TIL586 was evaluated in a 4h 51 Cr release assay at an effector: target (E:T) ratio of 40: 1.
  • Figs. 5A and 5B show inhibition of lysis of 5, Cr-labeled target cells by non- labeled 586EBV cells loaded with the ORF3P peptide.
  • Fig. 5A shows 586mel cells were labeled with chromium for 90 min as a "hot” target.
  • 586EBV cells pulsed with ORF3P (—*—), with irrelevant peptide (— ⁇ — ) and T2 cells loaded with ORF3P (— ⁇ — ) were used as "cold” target cells. After washing, "hot” and “cold” target cells were counted again and mixed at the "cold'Thot” ratio of 1 : 1 , 5: 1, 10: 1, and 20: 1.
  • TIL586 was added at an effector: "hot” target (E:T) ratio of 20: 1. Chromium release was measured after 4 h incubation.
  • Fig. 5B shows lysis of 51 Cr-labeled 624mel ("hot” target) by TIL1200 which recognized gplOO was not inhibited by 586EBV cells pulsed with ORF3P (— * — ) compared to 586EBV cells pulsed with an irrelevant peptide (— ⁇ — ).
  • "Cold” and "hot” target cells were mixed at the indicated ratios.
  • TIL1200 was added at an effector: hot target (E:T) ratio of 30: 1. Cytolytic activity of TIL1200 was evaluated in a 4-h "Cr release assay.
  • FIGS 6A-6D show recognition of the antigenic peptide T cell clones from the TIL586 cell line.
  • T cell clones were generated from the TIL586 cell line.
  • 586EBV B cells were pulsed with the ORF3P peptide or irrelevant peptide.
  • T cell clone or TIL586 cells were added and coincubated.
  • GM-CSF assay was performed as described in Fig. IB.
  • Fig. 7 Recognition of various target cells and the antigenic peptide by CTL clones derived from TIL586.
  • T cell clones were generated by limiting dilution (1 cell per well) from the TIL586 cell line and were further expanded in AIM-V medium containing 6000 IU /ml IL-2.
  • GM-CSF secretion by CTL clone 586TIL-C1 and clone 4 was measured after coculturing with normal melanocyte cell line (HLA-A31 +), 586EBV B cells pulsed with the ORF3P peptide or irrelevant pepude, 397mel or 586mel cells.
  • Fig. 8 Identification of TRP-2 as a new tumor antigen recognized by CTL clone 4.
  • GM-CSF release by CTL clone 4 was measured after co-culture with COS-7 cotransfected with the HLA-A31 cDNA along with genes encoding MART-1, gp75/TRP-l, gplOO, tyrosinase, pl5 and TRP-2.
  • Control stimulator cells included 586mel, 397mel, COS-7 alone, and COS-7 transfected the HLA-A31 cDNA.
  • Fig. 9 Construction of deletions and subclones of the TRP-2 gene and T cell recognition.
  • the full length cDNA of TRP-2 which comprises the 1557 bp open reading frame is shown. Nucleotides are numbered from the f— rst nucleotide from the 5' untranslated region of TRP-2 cDNA. A series of deletion constructs and subcloning of DNA fragments were made. T cell recognition of each construct was determined after co-culturing CTL clone 4 with COS-7 co-transfected with the DNA fragments shown above and the HLA- A31 gene.
  • Fig. 10 Antigenic peptide and partial coding sequence of TRP-2.
  • the partial nucleotide and amino acid sequences of the TRP-2 gene are shown.
  • the length and 3' terminus of the DNA fragments in pTD4, pTA, pTD3 and pTK are indicated by arrows and the restriction sites for Apa I, Pst I and Kpn I are marked.
  • the antigenic peptide sequence recognized by CTL clone 4 is in bold and underlined.
  • FIG. 11A through 11C Characterization of the Antigenic peptide recognized by CTL clone 4.
  • Figure 11 (A) GM-CSF release by T cells at different peptide concentrations. 586EBV (A31 +) were pulsed with the TRP,, ⁇ peptide ( *- ) and T2 (non- A31) cells were pulsed with the TRP 197 . M ⁇ ( -•- ) at various peptide concentrations for 90 min. ORF3P as a control peptide was pulsed onto 586EBV B cells ( ⁇ ).
  • GM-CSF release by CTL clone 4 was determined after co-incubate with 586EBV B cells pulsed with TRP W 205 and ORF3P, and T2 cells pulsed with TRP 197 ⁇ .
  • Figure 11 (B) Sensitization of the target cells for lysis by CTL clone 4 at different peptide concentrations. 586EBV B cells were incubated with TRP 197 . MJ ( -*- ), an irrelevant peptide ORF3P (- ⁇ ), and T2 cells pulsed with TRP, ⁇ ( •* ) at various peptide concentrations. After peptide incubation, target cells were labelled for 30 min.
  • cytolytic activity of CTL clone 4 at an E: T ratio of 40: 1 was measured after a 4 h incubation of T cells with target cells.
  • Target 586EBV cells were separately incubated with TRP l97 .- o5 , ( * - ) or the irrelevant peptides ORF3P ( ⁇ ) and target T2 cells were incubated with the TRP I97a)J peptide ( •• ⁇ ) for 90 min. 586mel ( ⁇ ) and 397mel ( » ) were used as positive and negative controls, respectively.
  • the present invention encompasses cancer peptides, tumor antigen and portion, derivatives or variants thereof which are immunologically recognized by T lymphocytes of the immune system.
  • the present invention further encompasses the antigenic cancer epitope(s) which are contained in the cancer peptides or tumor antigen.
  • the antigenic cancer epitope specifically causes a cellular mediated immune response by interaction with T cells of the immune system. This interaction between the antigenic cancer epitope and the T cells causes the T cells to respond against, and prevent, eliminate or reduce the cancer in a mammal, including humans.
  • the cancer peptides and the antigenic cancer epitope contained within the cancer peptides of the present invention are distinguished from normal protein or peptides in that the cancer peptides are encoded by an alternative open reading frame of a gene other than the open reading frame that encodes the normal protein or peptide within the gene.
  • the cancer peptide and portions thereof are characteristically absent from or present in very low levels from normal cells and are present in high levels from pre-cancer and cancer cells. Expression of the cancer peptide at high levels correlates with transformation of normal cells to a pre-cancer or cancer cell.
  • the cancer peptides of the present invention form part of, or are derived from, cancers including but not limited to primary or metastatic melanoma, thymoma, lymphoma, sarcoma, lung cancer, liver cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkins lymphoma, leukemias, uterine cancer, cervical cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer and adenocarcinomas such as breast cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, and the like.
  • cancers including but not limited to primary or metastatic melanoma, thymoma, lymphoma, sarcoma, lung cancer, liver cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkins lymphoma, leukemias, uterine cancer, cervical cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer and adenocarcinomas such as breast cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, and the like.
  • melanoma includes, but is not limited to, melanomas, metastatic melanomas, melanomas derived from either melanocytes or melanocyte related nevus cells, melanocarcinomas, melanoepitheliomas, melanosarcomas, melanoma in situ.
  • cancer peptides, fragments or derivatives thereof recognized by autologous CTL in patients with cancer, in particular melanoma.
  • cancer peptides, fragments or derivatives thereof recognized by MHC restricted CTL, in particular MHC class I restricted CTLs are particularly interested.
  • tumor antigen encompasses the cancer or tumor protein and any portion or peptide of the cancer or tumor protein capable of eliciting an anti-tumor response in mammals.
  • the tumor antigen includes the full-length TRP-2 protein.
  • Cancer peptides as the term is used herein, encompasses any epitope or fragment of cancer or tumor protein, which acts as a tumor antigen.
  • “Fragment” as the term is used herein means any segment of a protein or gene, having at least 5 or 6 amino acids in the case of a protein fragment and at least 15-18 nucleotides in the case of a gene.
  • the cancer peptides of the present invention arise from expression of an alternative open reading frame DNA sequence from a normal gene. Rather than the normal gene product being expressed, a cancer peptide is expressed which is capable of being immunologically recognized by T lymphocytes in an MHC restricted manner.
  • the MHC restricted T lymphocytes are useful in identifying the alternative open reading frame gene product associated with cancer and pre-cancer.
  • cancer peptides which are associated with TRP-1 (gp 75); the protein, pl9 ARF , which arises from an alternative reading frame of the mouse tumor suppressor INK4a gene (Quelle, D.E. et al £eJI Vol. 83, pp. 993-1000, 1995); the antigenic octapeptide SVVEFSSL, i.e. JAL8, an allogeneic peptide recognized by bml anti-B6 alloreactive bmlBZ19.4 T-cells (Malarkannan, S. et al J. Exp. Med. Vol. 182, pp. 1739-1750, 1995) and the like.
  • a cancer peptide, fragment or derivative thereof of the present invention comprises antigenic cancer epitope immunologically recognized by tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) derived from a cancer tumor of a mammal.
  • TIL tumor infiltrating lymphocytes
  • the cancer peptide comprises about 24 amino acids and is expressed by the alternative open reading frame 3 DNA sequence from the same gene that encodes tyrosinase-related protein 1 as depicted in Figure 2 or from homologs or variants thereof.
  • the cancer peptide of the present invention comprises the amino acid sequence:
  • cancer peptides or portions thereof that share partial sequence homology with SEQ. ID NO: 6.
  • partial amino acid sequence homology is meant a peptide having at least 85% sequence homology with SEQ. ID NO: 6, preferably at least 95% sequence homology or greater and has the biological function of stimulating cancer antigen specific T lymphocytes.
  • the cancer peptide of the present invention comprises the amino acid sequence: MSLQRQFLR (SEQ. ID NO: 9) and fragments and derivatives thereof.
  • the cancer peptides and the antigenic cancer epitope contained within the tumor antigen of the present invention are derived from the TRP- 2 protein, which is expressed primarily in melanomas, normal melanocyte cell lines and retina.
  • the tumor antigen of the present invention present in significantly lower levels in most normal cells than the elevated levels found in pre-cancer and cancer cells. Elevated expression of the tumor antigen correlates with transformation of normal cells to a pre-cancer or cancer cell.
  • TRP-2 is located on the human chromosome 13 and has been shown to be a member of the tyrosinase-related gene family and shares a 40-45% amino acid sequence identity to tyrosinase and gp75 /TRP-1 (Yokoyama et al.
  • TRP-2 encodes a protein with 519 amino acids and has been demonstrated to have DOPAchrome tautomerase activity involved in melanin synthesis (Bouchard et al. (1994)).
  • cancer peptides of TRP-2 or variants thereof recognized by autologous CTL in patients with cancer, in particular melanoma.
  • cancer peptides, fragments or derivatives thereof recognized by MHC restricted CTL in particular MHC class I restricted CTLs.
  • a preferred HLA subtype recognized by the cancer peptides are the HLA-A31 subtype.
  • the present invention relates to the identification of TRP-2, a melanoma/melanocyte differentiation antigen of the tyrosinase protein family, as a potent tumor antigen recognized by HLA- A31 restricted T cells.
  • the TRP-2 gene product is the second tumor antigen recognized by CTL clones isolated from TIL586.
  • the tumor antigen is a cancer peptide comprising about 9 amino acids and is expressed from the gene that encodes tyrosinase-related protein-2 (SEQ ID NO:46) or from homologs or variants thereof depicted in Figure 10.
  • fragments of the TRP-2 protein or functionally equivalent variants thereof are used as cancer peptides.
  • the tumor antigen of the present invention comprises fragments of the TRP-2 protein containing at least a portion of amino acids 197-205.
  • the cancer peptide of the present invention comprises the amino acid sequence: LLGPGRPYR and fragments, or derivatives thereof.
  • cancer peptides or portions thereof that share partial sequence homology with the region of TRP-2 containing amino acids 197-205.
  • partial amino acid sequence homology is meant a peptide having at least 85% sequence homology with LLGPGRPYR, preferably at least 95% sequence homology or greater and has the biological function of stimulating cancer antigen specific T lymphocytes.
  • Another embodiment of the present invention encompasses cancer peptides having sufficient homology to LLGPGRPYR to effectively act as cancer peptides.
  • Such peptides may have conservative amino acid changes at one or more positions.
  • conservative amino acid changes is meant, an amino acid change at a particular position which is of the same type as originally present; i.e. a hydrophobic amino acid exchanged for a hydrophobic amino acid, a basic amino acid for a basic amino acid, etc.
  • Such amino acid changes do not significantly alter the overall charge and configuration of the peptide and therefore such variants maintain the anti-cancer activity of a cancer peptide. Examples of such conservative changes are well-known to the skilled artisan and are within the scope of the present invention.
  • Yet another embodiment of the present invention relates to several cancer peptides which are derived from the LLGPGRPYR peptide, but contain non- conservative amino acid changes at one or more positions.
  • Such peptides have been identified in the present invention and include, but art not limited to LSGPGRPYR, KLGPGRPYR, LLGPGFPYR and fragments and derivatives thereof.
  • the present invention relates to functionally equivalent variants of the TRP-1 or TRP-2 cancer peptides.
  • “Functionally equivalent variants” includes peptides with partial sequence homology, peptides having one or more specific conservative and/or non-conservative amino acid changes, peptide conjugates, chimeric proteins, fusion proteins and peptide nucleic acids.
  • the cancer peptides, tumor antigen and their antigenic cancer epitopes may be purified and isolated from natural sources such as from primary clinical isolates, cell lines and the like.
  • the cancer peptide and portions thereof are at least 90% pure, preferably at least 95% pure and as pure as 100%.
  • the cancer peptides and their antigenic epitopes may also be obtained by chemical synthesis or by recombinant DNA techniques known in the arts. Techniques for chemical synthesis are described in J.M. Steward and J.D. Young, “Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis", W.H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco, 1969; M. Bodansky et al "Peptide Synthesis", John Wiley & Sons, Second Edition, 1976, and J. Meienhofer, "Hormonal Proteins and Peptides", Vol. 2, p. 46, Academic Press, New York, 1983 and E. Schroder and K. Kubke, “The Peptides”, Vol. 1, Academic Press, New York, 1965.
  • the cancer peptides and their antigenic cancer epitopes may be formulated with pharmaceutically acceptable carriers into pharmaceutical compositions by methods known in the art.
  • the composition is useful as a vaccine to prevent or treat cancer.
  • composition may further comprise at least one immunostimulatory molecule.
  • Immunostimulatory molecules to be used in conjunction with the cancer peptide or portion thereof for stimulating antigen specific T cell responses include but are not limited to one or more major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules, such as class I and class II molecules, preferably a class I molecule.
  • MHC major histocompatibility complex
  • the composition may further comprise other stimulator molecules including B7.1 , B7.2, ICAM-1 , ICAM-2,
  • LFA-1, LFA-3, CD72 and the like and cytokines which include but are not limited to IL-1 through IL-15, TNF ⁇ , IFN ⁇ , RANTES, G-CSF, M-CSF, IFN ⁇ , CTAP III,
  • the stimulatory molecule may be provided as a physically separate entity or it may be provided in the membrane of an antigen presenting cell such as B-cell, macrophage or dendritic cell, in the membrane of a liposome, or expressed on the surface of a transduced or transfected cell.
  • DNA sequences of MHC immunostimulatory molecules are available from GenBank and the like.
  • the cancer peptides, tumor antigen and their antigenic cancer epitopes are useful in methods of preventing or treating cancer and useful in diagnostic assay for detecting cancer or precancer in a mammal, including humans.
  • the cancer peptides or portions thereof may be in the form of a derivative in which other constituents are attached thereto such as radiolabels, biotin, fluorescein.
  • a targeting agent may also be attached to the tumor antigen, cancer peptides or portions thereof that allow for specific targeting to a specific organ, tumor or cell types.
  • targeting agents may be hormones, cytokines, cellular receptors and the like.
  • the cancer peptide, tumor antigen and portions thereof may be prepared in the form of a kit, alone or in combination with other reagents.
  • Another aspect of the invention is a vaccine useful in inducing tumor-specific cell-mediated immunity against cancer.
  • Approaches to cancer immunotherapy can be divided into active or passive categories. Active immunotherapy involves the direct immunization of cancer patients with cancer antigens in an attempt to boost immune responses against the tumor.
  • Passive immunotherapy refers to the administration of immune reagents, such as immune cells or antibodies with antitumor reactivity with the goal of directly mediating antitumor responses.
  • Recombinant viruses such as vaccinia, fowlpox or adenovirus encoding
  • cancer antigens plus genes encoding cytokines, costimulatory molecules, or other genes to enhance the immune response f.
  • Recombinant bacteria such as 6CG, Salmonella or Listeria encoding cancer antigens alone or in combination with immunostimulatory molecules
  • antigenic proteins coincubated with antigen presenting cells exogenous antigen presenting pathway to raise CD4 cells.
  • antigen presenting cells exogenous antigen presenting pathway to raise CD4 cells.
  • the insertion of the gene encoding cancer antigens into high efficiency expression systems such as E. coli. yeast or baculovirus and the like provides the opportunity to obtain large amounts of purified tumor antigen for use in immunization.
  • the immunodominant peptides from these tumor antigens could readily be synthesized in vitro and purified in large amounts for immunization alone or in a form intended to improve their immunogenicity such as in combination with adjuvant, linkage to lipid s/liposomes or helper peptides, or pulsed onto antigen presenting cells. Modification of individual amino acids of the immunodominant peptides to improve binding efficiency to MHC antigens can potentially increase immunogenicity compared to the native peptide.
  • the alternative open reading frame nucleic acid sequence of the present invention of TRP-1 or the DNA sequence as encoding TRP-2 protein or peptides of the present invention may be administered using a gene gun in amounts to elicite a cellular response against a cancer cell.
  • Nonogram quantities are useful for such purposes.
  • An effective form of immunization involves the incorporation of genes encoding immunogenic molecules into recombinant bacteria such as BCG, Salmonella or Listeria or into recombinant viruses such as vaccinea, fowlpox or adenovirus and the like.
  • the genes encoding cancer antigens can be expressed either alone or in combination with genes encoding immunostimulatory molecules or other genes which can enhance the immune response following infection.
  • IL-2 interleukin-2
  • B7.1 interleukin-2
  • Active immunotherapy followed by the exogenous administration of immunostimulatory cytokines such as IL-2, IL-6, IL-10, IL-12, or IL-15 may also be used to improve immune responses.
  • Passive immunotherapy with genetically modified immune cells capable of recognizing human tumor antigens is effective in mediating the regression of cancer in selected patients with metastatic melanoma.
  • adoptive immunotherapy In vitro techniques have been developed in which human lymphocytes are sensitized in vitro to tumor antigen immunodominant peptides presented on antigen presenting cells.
  • repetitive in vitro stimulation cells can be derived with a far greater capacity to recognize human tumor antigens than the TIL that were used to clone the genes encoding these antigens.
  • lymphocytes could be derived with 50 to 100 times more potency of TIL.
  • the adoptive transfer of these cells may be more effective in mediating tumor regression in vivo than are conventionally grown TIL.
  • the cancer peptides or portions thereof may be administered via one of several routes including but not limited to intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous, intradermal, intraperitoneal, intrathecal, intrapleural, intrauterine, rectal, vaginal, topical, intratumor and the like.
  • Administration may be by transmucosal or transdermal means.
  • penetrants appropriate to the barrier to be permeated are used in the formulation.
  • penetrants are generally known in the art, and include, for example, for transmucosal administration bile salts and fusidic acid derivatives.
  • detergents may be used to facilitate permeation.
  • Transmucosal administration may be by nasal sprays, for example, or suppositories.
  • the cancer peptide, tumor antigen, portion or variant thereof is formulated into conventional oral administration form such as capsules, tablets and toxics.
  • a dosage of cancer peptide or portion thereof of at least about lpg per Kg bodyweight, preferably at least about Ing per Kg bodyweight, more preferably at least about l ⁇ g or greater per Kg bodyweight of the recipient.
  • a range of from about Ing per Kg bodyweight to about lOOmg per Kg bodyweight is preferred although a lower or higher dose may be administered.
  • the dose is effective to prime, stimulate and/or cause the clonal expansion of cancer antigen specific T lymphocytes, preferably cytotoxic T lymphocytes, which in turn are capable of preventing or inhibiting cancer in the recipient.
  • the dose is administered at least once and may be provided as a bolus or a continuous administration. Multiple administrations of the dose over a period of several weeks to months may be preferable. Subsequent doses may be administered as indicated.
  • a vaccine comprising the cancer peptide or portion thereof is administered to a mammal in an amount effective to prevent cancer in the mammals.
  • a vaccine comprising the cancer peptide or portion thereof encoded by ORF3 of the TRP-1 gene for prevention of melanoma.
  • a vaccine comprising one or more peptides encoded by fragments of the TRP-2 gene for prevention of melanoma.
  • the method comprises administration of an effective amount of a antigenic cancer epitope at a site of tumor burden, said amount is effective to reduce the size of the tumor at the site.
  • autologous cytotoxic lymphocytes or tumor infiltrating lymphocytes may be obtained from a patient with cancer.
  • the lymphocytes are grown in culture and cancer antigen specific lymphocytes expanded by culturing in the presence of specific cancer peptides or antigenic cancer epitopes alone or in combination with at least one immunostimulatory molecule with cytokines.
  • the antigen specific lymphocytes are then infused back into the patient in an amount effective to reduce or eliminate the tumors in the patient.
  • the efficacy of the vaccine can be assessed by production of immune cells that recognize the cancer antigen, as assessed by specific lytic activity, specific cytokine production, tumor regression or combination of these.
  • the vaccine can be administered in conjunction with other therapeutic treatments such as immunomodulators, for example, IL-2, IL-6, IL-10, IL-12, IL-15, interferon, tumor necrosis factor and the like, chemotherapeutic drugs such as cisplatinum, antiviral such as gancyclovir, amphotericin B, antibiotics and the like.
  • Another aspect of the invention is an alternative open reading frame DNA sequence of a gene other than the open reading frame DNA sequence encoding a normal protein or peptide wherein the alternative open reading frame DNA sequence encodes cancer peptides and portions thereof which are immunologically recognized by T cells of the immune system.
  • Alternative open reading frame DNA sequence include but are not limited to DNA sequences from the TRP-1 gene, the TRP-2 gene, the INK4a gene and the like.
  • Melanogenic genes include but are not limited to genes encoding MART-1/Melan A, tyrosinase, gp 100, gp 75 (TRP-1), TRP-2 (Halahan, R. et al 1993 J. Invest. Dermatol. 100 (Suppl.): 176S-185S), and the like.
  • One embodiment of the invention is an alternative open reading frame DNA sequence or portion thereof encoding a cancer peptide from within the gene sequence that encodes tyrosinase-related protein.
  • the gene sequence for TRP1 has been disclosed through the EMBL data bank under accession number X51455 as described by Vijayasaradhi, S. et al (1990, J. Exp. Med. 171 : 1375-80) and EMBL accession number X51420 as described by Cohen, T. et al 1990 Nucleic Acids Research. Vol. 18:2807.
  • the alternative open reading frame DNA sequence comprises ORF3 depicted in Figure 2 having SEQ. ID NO.: 5, portions thereof and functionally equivalent sequence variant thereof that encode a cancer peptide or portions thereof recognized by cancer antigen specific T lymphocytes including tumor infiltrating lymphocytes. Also encompassed by the present invention are nucleic acid sequences complementary, as well as anticomplementary to ORF3 depicted in Fig. 2.
  • the alternative open reading frame DNA sequence comprises: ATGTCACTGCAACGGCAATTTCTCAGG (SEQ. ID NO: 10).
  • TRP-2 portions of the TRP-2 encoding one or more cancer peptides.
  • the gene sequence for TRP-2 has been disclosed through the Genbank under accession number D 17547 as described by Yokoyama et al. (1994) and Genbank accession number S69231 as described by Bouchard et al. (1994).
  • nucleic acid sequences complementary, as well as anticomplementary to a sequence encoding LLGPGRPYR and equivalent sequence variants thereof are also encompassed by the present invention.
  • the DNA sequence encoding TRP-2 protein expresses all or more portions thereof.
  • a preferred fragment of the TRP-2 gene comprises a region between a PstI site at nucleotide position 947 and a Kpnl site at nucleotide position 1080.
  • Another preferred fragment of TRP-2 gene comprises:
  • substitutions are included in the ambit of the invention as long as the substitution results in expression of a cancer peptide that is recognized by cancer antigen MHC-restricted T cells.
  • One substitution encompassed in the present invention is the substitution of TCA encoding Ser for GCT, GCC, GCA or GCG encoding Ala. Homologs from other mammalian species is included within the ambit of the invention.
  • a murine cDNA sequence is used to screen a mammalian cDNA library for a human homolog nucleic acid sequence. Positive clones are selected and sequenced.
  • tissue sources from which the cDNA library can be synthesized include but are not limited to dermis, epidermis, solid tumors, melanomas, melanocytes, and the like.
  • nucleic acid probes for the detection and quantification of RNA that transcribes the cancer peptides such as TRP-1, TRP-2 cancer peptides and the like in biologic samples isolated from a mammal with cancer are nucleic acid probes for the detection and quantification of RNA that transcribes the cancer peptides such as TRP-1, TRP-2 cancer peptides and the like in biologic samples isolated from a mammal with cancer. Alterations in the level of RNA relative to a control RNA sample is useful in diagnosis and prognosis of the disease in the mammal.
  • mRNA is derived from tissue of a patient suspected of having cancer or precancer and compared with mRNA derived from a healthy control subject.
  • the mRNA may be detected using oligonucleotide probes hybridizable with the mRNA.
  • the probe is hybridizable with the transcription product of ORF3 of TRP-1.
  • nucleic acid probes for the detection and quantification of RNA that transcribes the TRP-2 tumor antigen in biologic samples isolated from a mammal with cancer. Alterations in the level of RNA relative to a control RNA sample is useful in diagnosis and prognosis of the disease in the mammal.
  • TRP-2 mRNA is derived from tissue of a patient suspected of having cancer or precancer and compared with TRP-2 mRNA derived from a healthy control subject.
  • the mRNA may be detected using oligonucleotide probes.
  • Combinations of oligonucleotides pairs based on the sequence encoding the cancer peptide or portions thereof may be used as PCR primers to detect mRNA in biological samples using the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) process for amplifying selected RNA sequences.
  • RT-PCR reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction
  • the present invention also encompasses in situ PCR and in situ RT-PCR for detection of DNA and RNA encoding the cancer peptides or portions thereof.
  • the technique is preferred when the copy number of a target nucleic acid is very low, or when different forms of nucleic acids must be distinguished.
  • the method is especially useful in detecting and differentiating precancer and cancer cells from normal cells.
  • the present invention includes a method of identifying an antigenic cancer epitope reactive with antigen specific T cells comprising the generation of nucleic acid deletion fragments from a gene.
  • the deletion fragments are placed in an appropriate vector which in turn are transfected or transduced into a host cell for the expression of the nucleic acid product.
  • the host cell may also express an immunostimulatory molecule. Cancer antigen specific T-cell responses are determined in the presence of the host cell expressing the deletion product.
  • a immunostimulatory molecule may be provided by an antigen presenting cell such as a B cell, macrophage, dendritic cell and the like or by a cell transfected with a stimulatory molecule.
  • the immunostimulatory molecule is a MHC class I molecule.
  • the alternative open reading frame DNA sequence encoding the cancer peptide or the antigenic cancer epitope is determined.
  • An alternative method of identifying the cancer antigen and the antigenic cancer epitope is by generating synthetic peptides, pulsing antigen presenting cells with the synthetic peptides and adding the peptide pulsed antigen presenting cells with antigen specific T cells and measuring the antigen specific response of T cells in the presence of the peptide pulsed antigen presenting cells.
  • the synthetic peptides that result in antigen specific T cell responses contains the antigenic cancer epitope of the present invention.
  • the present invention also encompassed vector comprising the alternative open reading frame DNA sequence encoding cancer peptides or the antigenic cancer epitope.
  • the vector may also comprise a DNA sequence encoding at least one immunostimulatory molecule.
  • the vector comprises ORF-3 of the TRP- 1 gene.
  • the present invention also encompasses a vector comprising the TRP-2 gene and fragments thereof encoding the tumor antigen of the present invention.
  • the vector may also comprise a DNA sequence encoding at least one co- immunostimulatory molecule.
  • Eukaryotic expression vectors include but are not limited to retroviral vectors, vaccinia virus vectors, adenovirus vectors, herpes virus vectors, fowlpox virus vectors, baculovirus vectors, human papillomavirus vectors, equine encephalitis vectors, influenza virus vectors and the like.
  • the present invention encompasses novel recombinant virus expressing a cancer peptide or portion thereof encoded by an alternative open reading frame nucleic acid sequence of a gene other than the open reading frame nucleic acid sequence used to encode a normal protein or peptide from the same gene.
  • the present invention encompasses novel recombinant virus expressing the TRP-2 tumor antigen encoded by nucleic acid sequence of the TRP-2 gene or fragments or variant thereof.
  • the recombinant virus may also express at least one immunostimulatory molecule.
  • the recombinant virus is capable of eliciting or upregulating a cell-mediate immune response in a mammal for the purpose of preventing or treating cancer in the mammal, particularly humans.
  • the recombinant virus has incorporated into its genome or portion thereof a nucleic acid sequence encoding a cancer peptide, portion thereof, or antigenic cancer epitope, alone, or in combination with one or more genes encoding an immunostimulatory molecule.
  • the recombinant virus has incorporated into its genome a nucleic acid sequence encoding a TRP- 1 cancer peptide or portion thereof.
  • the recombinant virus has incorporated into its genome or portion thereof a nucleic acid sequence encoding a TRP-2 tumor antigen or variant thereof, alone, or in combination with one or more genes encoding an co-immunostimulatory molecule.
  • a host cell infected with the recombinant virus expresses the cancer peptide, portion thereof, or antigenic cancer epitope, alone or in combination with at least one immunostimulatory molecule.
  • 89: 10847-10851 , 1992) and Sutter et al disclose the construction and use as a vector, the non- replicating recombinant Ankara virus (MVA, modified vaccinia Ankara) which may be used as a viral vector in the present invention.
  • MVA non- replicating recombinant Ankara virus
  • Baxby and Paoletti disclose the construction and use as a vector, a non-replicating proxvirus, including canarypox virus, fowlpox virus and other avian species for use as a viral vector in the present invention.
  • the vectors of the present invention may be placed in an appropriate host cell for the expression of the cancer peptide or antigenic cancer epitope.
  • Eukaryotic host cell lines include, but are not limited to COS cells, CHO cells, Hela cells, NIH/3T3 cells, insect cells, antigen presenting cells such as dendritic cells and the like.
  • the host cell may also express a stimulatory molecule.
  • the host cells express both the cancer peptide or antigenic cancer epitope in combination with at least one MHC molecule, it is preferable that a eukaryotic expression system be used to allow for proper glycosylation.
  • the expression of both the cancer antigen and the immunostimulatory molecule by the host cell provides the necessary MHC restricted peptide to specific T cells and the appropriate signal to the T cell to aid in antigen recognition and proliferation or clonal expansion of antigen specific T cells.
  • the overall result is an upregulation of the immune system.
  • the upregulation of the immune response is manifest by an increase in cancer antigen specific cytotoxic lymphocytes which are able to kill or inhibit the growth of cancer or precancer cells.
  • the DNA may be inserted into the host cell by transfection, transduction, liposomes and the like by methods known in the art.
  • cationic lipids are preferred, for example, polycationic lipid, dimyristyloxypropyl-3-dimethyl-hydroxyethyl ammonium (DMRIE) complexed with the neutral phospholipid dioleoyl phosphatidyl-ethanolamine (DOPE) as disclosed by Nabel, E.G. et al, 1992, Hum. Gene. Ther. 3:367-275; Nabel, G.J. et al, 1992, Hum.
  • DMRIE dimyristyloxypropyl-3-dimethyl-hydroxyethyl ammonium
  • DOPE neutral phospholipid dioleoyl phosphatidyl-ethanolamine
  • the recombinant cancer protein, tumor antigen or antigenic cancer epitope expressed by the host cells may be purified from cell lysates or cell supernatants by standard protein purification procedures known in the art. These include but are not limited to molecular sieve chromatography, ion-exchange chromatography, isoelectric focusing, gel electrophoresis, affinity chromatography, HPLC, reverse phase HPLC and the like. (Ausubel et al, 1987, in Current Protocols in Molecular Biology. John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY). Immunoaffinity chromatography may also be used for purification using anti-cancer protein antibodies or antigen binding fragments thereof as described herein, as the immunoaffinity agent.
  • the recombinant virus may also be used as a therapeutic or vaccine. In such uses it is desirable to provide the recipient with a dosage of recombinant virus in the range of from about IO 5 to about 10'° plaque forming units/mg mammal, although a lower or higher dose may be administered.
  • the recombinant viral vector may be introduced into a mammal either prior to any evidence of cancer such as melanoma or to mediate regression of the disease in a mammal afflicted with a cancer such as melanoma.
  • methods for administering the viral vector into mammals include, but are not limited to, exposure of cells to the recombinant virus ex vivo, or injection of the recombinant virus into the affected tissue or intravenous, subcutaneous, intradermal, intramuscular and the like administration of the virus.
  • the recombinant viral vector or combination of recombinant viral vectors may be administered locally by direct injection into the cancerous lesion or topical application in a suitable pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
  • the quantity of recombinant viral vector, carrying the nucleic acid sequence of interest is based on the titer of virus particles.
  • a preferred range for immunization is about IO 5 to 10 10 virus particles per mammal, preferably a human.
  • Cancer antigen epitope of the present invention which is involved in tumor rejection is not limited to the ones specifically disclosed herein. Using the methods disclosed in the present invention other cancer antigen epitopes contained in alternative open reading frame products may be identified from other tumor associated antigens (Van der Bruggen, P. et al 1991 Science 254: 1643-47; Gaugler, B.et.al. 1994 J. Exp. Med. 179:921-30; Boel, P. et al 1995 Immunity.
  • TILs Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes
  • MHC major histocompatibility complex
  • TIL586 TIL586
  • IL-2 interleukin-2
  • a gene encoding a tumor antigen recognized by TIL586 was recently isolated and shown to encode gp75.
  • the present invention is the identification and isolation of an antigenic peptide, MSLQRQFLR (SEQ. ID NO. : 9), recognized by TIL586, which is not derived from the normal gp75 protein.
  • the gp75 gene encodes two completely different polypeptides, gp75 as an antigen recognized by IgG antibodies in sera from a patient with cancer, and a 24 amino acid product as a tumor rejection antigen recognized by T cells.
  • the cancer epitope was absent from the normal gp75 protein.
  • the cancer peptide of the present invention recognized by TIL586 was derived from the gene product translated from an alternative open reading frame of the same gene encoding the normal gp 75 protein. Substitution of ATG with ATC at nucleotides 294-296 resulted in a complete loss of the ability to stimulate cytokine release from TIL586. Cold target inhibition experiments indicated that the identified cancer epitope was capable of competing for T cell recognition with a naturally processed peptide present on the tumor cells .
  • T cell clones generated from the TIL586 cell line were capable of recognizing 586mel tumor cells, 586EBV B cells pulsed with this peptide and normal melanocytes in a HLA- A31 restricted fashion, also suggesting that the gene product encoded by the alternative open reading frame might be present in the tumor cells as well as the normal melanocytes.
  • the present invention also relates to a gene encoding a tumor antigen recognized by TIL586 and shown to encode TRP-2.
  • the present invention also relates to the identification and isolation of an antigenic peptide, LLGPGRPYR, derived from TRP-2 and active as a cancer vaccine.
  • the invention provides a transgenic animal which has incorporated into its genome one or more copies of the alternative open reading frame DNA sequence encoding a cancer peptide or portion thereof.
  • the invention also provides a transgenic animal which has incorporated into its genome one or more copies of a DNA sequence encoding TRP-2 tumor antigens or portion thereof.
  • the general method of producing transgenic animals is described in Krimpenfort et al U.S. Patent No. 5, 175,384, Leder et al U.S.
  • the incorporation of the gene results in overexpression, altered expression or expression of multiple forms or variants of the cancer peptides.
  • the resulting transgenic animal are useful in studies of the development of cancer or tumor antigen of the present invention.
  • the animal model is useful in screening vaccines and chemotherapeutic drugs for cancer treatment.
  • the transgenic animal is also useful in studies of the development of cancer.
  • This invention further comprises an antibody or antigen binding portion thereof elicited by immunization of the cancer peptide or antigenic cancer epitope of the present invention.
  • the cancer peptide or antigenic cancer epitope is comprised of only a few amino acids
  • the cancer peptide or antigenic cancer epitope ay be conjugated to a carrier protein in order to elicite an antibody response.
  • Carrier proteins such as KLH, tetanus toxoid and the like and methods of conjugation are known in the art.
  • the antibody has specificity for and reacts or binds with the cancer peptide and the antigenic cancer epitope of the present invention.
  • Exemplary antibody molecules are intact immunoglobulin molecules, substantially intact immunoglobulin molecules or these portions of an immunoglobulin molecule that contain the antigen binding site, including those portions of immunoglobulin molecules known in the art as F (ab), F (ab'), F (ab' , humanized chimeric antibody, and F (v).
  • Polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies may be produced by methods known in the art. (Kohler and Milstein (1975) Nature 256, 495-497; Campbell “Monoclonal Antibody Technology, the Production and Characterization of Rodent and Human Hybridomas" in Burdon et al (eds.) (1985) "Laboratory Techniques in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology", Vol. 13, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam).
  • the antibodies or antigen binding fragments may also be produced by genetic engineering.
  • the technology for expression of both heavy and light chain genes is the subject of the PCT patent applications: publication number WO 901443, WO 9014424, Huse et al (1989) Science 246: 1275-1281 , and U.S. Patent No. 4,946,778.
  • the antibodies of the invention are used in immunoassays to detect cancer peptides including TRP-1 peptides and TRP-2 tumor antigen or portions thereof in biological samples.
  • the antibodies or antigen binding fragments thereof may be used to detect cancer peptides in tissue biopsy samples from a mammal afflicted with cancer.
  • Assessment of the cancer antigen in a diseased tissue can be used to prognose the progression of the disease in a mammal or may diagnose the efficacy of a treatment.
  • the immunoassay may be a radioimmunoassay, Western blot assay, immunofluorescent assay, enzyme immunoassay, chemiluminescent assay, immunohistochemical assay and the like and may be performed in vitro, in vivo or in situ. Standard techniques known in the art for ELISA are described in "Methods in Immunodiagnosis", 2nd Edition, Rose and Bigazzi, eds. John Wiley & Sons, 1980; Campbell et al "Methods and Immunology", W.A. Benjamin, Inc., 1964; and Oellerich, M. 1984, J. Clin. Chem. Clin. Biochem. 22:895-904.
  • Biological samples appropriate for such detection assays include but are not limited to cells, tissue biopsy, whole blood, plasma, serum, sputum, cerebrospinal fluid, pleural fluid, urine and the like.
  • the antibodies or antigen binding fragments of the present invention may also be used in immunotherapy.
  • the antibodies or antigen binding fragment thereof is provided to a mammal in an amount sufficient to prevent, lessen or attenuate the severity, extent or duration of the cancer. All articles and patents referred to are incorporated herein by reference.
  • RPMI 1640 AIM-V media, Lipofectamine, G418 (GIBCO BRL, Gaithersberg, MD); the eukaryotic expression vector pCR3 (Invitrogen, San Diego, CA); anti-HLA-A31 monoclonal antibody (One lambda, Canoga Park, CA); anti- immunoglobulin M antibody conjugated with fluorescein isothiocyanate (Vector Laboratories, Inc., Burlingame, CA). Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and cell Unes
  • TIL586 were isolated from the tumor specimen of a patient with metastatic melanoma and grown in medium containing IL-2 (6000 IU/ml) (Chiron) for 32-60 days as previously described (Topalian, S., D. Solomon, F. P. Avis, A. E. Chang, D. L. Freeksen, W. M. Linehan, M. T. Lotze, C. N. Robertson, C. A. Seipp, P. Simon, C. G. Simpson, and S. A. Rosenberg, 1988, J. Clin. Oncol. 6:839-53). TIL586 were predominantly CD8 + T cells. TIL1200 were grown under the same conditions as described for TIL586. The T cell clones were generated by the limiting dilution method from the TIL586 cell line, and then expanded in AIM-V medium containing 6000 IU/ml IL-2.
  • Melanoma cell lines 397mel, 397mel/A31, 586mel, 624mel, and EBV transformed B- cell lines 586EBV and 1510EBV were established in this laboratory and cultured in RPMI 1640 medium containing 10% fetal calf serum (FCS).
  • FCS fetal calf serum
  • Normal cultured melanocytes derived from infant foreskin (NHEM680 purchased from Clonetics, CA) were cultured in melanocyte growth medium (MGM; Clonetics, CA).
  • MGM melanocyte growth medium
  • the COS-7 cell line was provided by Dr. W. Leonard (NIH).
  • DNA transfection and GM-CSF assay were done as previously described (Wang, R. F., P. F. Robbins, Y. Kawakami, X. Q. Kang, and S. A. Rosenberg, 1995, J. Exp. Med. 181:799-804). Briefly, 200 ⁇ g of DNA carrying a different fragment and 50 ng of the HLA- A31 DNA were mixed with 2 ⁇ l of lipofectamine in 100 ⁇ l of DMEM for 15-45 min. The DNA/lipofectamine mixture was then added to the COS-7 (5 X IO 4 ) cells and incubated overnight. The following day, cells were washed twice with DMEM medium.
  • TIL586 was added at a concentration of 1 X 10 5 cells/ well in AIM-V medium containing 120 IU/ml of IL-2. After 18-24 h incubation, 100 ⁇ l of supernatant was collected and GM-CSF was measured in a standard ELISA assay (R + D Systems, Minneapolis, MN). For peptides, 586EBV, 1510EBV and T2 cells were incubated with peptides at 37°C for 90 min, and then washed three times with AIM-V medium containing 120 IU/ml of IL-2. TIL586 was added and incubated for additional 18-24 h, 100 ⁇ l of supernatant was collected for GM-CSF assay. Exo 111/ SI deletion constructions and PCR fragments
  • the pcDNA776 plasmid DNA was digested with Xba I and filled in with alpha-phosphorothioate deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates to block Exo III nuclease digestion.
  • the pcDNA776 plasmid is a derivative of the pcDNA3 vector containing a 2.4 kb DNA fragment and a CMV promoter for directing transcription.
  • the linearized DNA was subjected to the second restriction enzyme Xho I digestion to generate one end sensitive to Exo III.
  • Exo III nuclease / Mung bean nuclease deletion was performed according to the manufacture's instructions (Stratagene, CA). The detailed protocol is as follows: 1. lO ⁇ g DNA was digested with Xbal and filled in with alpha- phosphorothioate deoxyribonucleotide .
  • the DNA was digested with the second enzyme Xhol followed by phenol extraction and ethanol precipitation.
  • DNA pellet was dried and suspended in 125ul 2X Exo Buffer, 25 ul lOOmM ⁇ -mercaptoethanol, lOOul water.
  • Mung Bean Nuclease was added (previously diluted with IX Mung Bean Dilution Buffer) to each time point tube and incubated for 30 minutes at 30°C.
  • the pellet was dried. 12.
  • the DNA pellet was redissolved in 15 ⁇ l of lOmM Tris-Cl pH 7.5,
  • DNA deletions were ligated using the following conditions: 1.O ⁇ l Exo/Mung treated DNA 2.0 ⁇ l 10X Ligation Buffer
  • Stratagene offers a DNA Ligation Kit (Cat # 203003) for ligating inserts to vectors.
  • deletion was run in low melting point agarose, the band of interest excised and ligation continued.
  • the agarose level was kept below 0.5% in the ligation reaction.
  • Plasmids ⁇ PCR210 and pPCR220 were pCR3 vectors containing DNA insertion fragments amplified by using primers gp-1 (5' TGGATATGGCAAAGCGC ACAACTC) (SEQ. ID NO: 44) and gpl lB, gp-1 and gp22 (5' TAAATGGAA ATGTTCTCAAATTGT GGCGTG) (SEQ. ID NO: 45), respectively.
  • Cytolytic assay was done as previously described (Kawakami, Y et al., 1994, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91 :6458-62). Briefly, the target cells were labeled with chromium for 90 min. After washing three times, the cells were incubated with peptides at a concentration of 1 ⁇ g/ml for 90 min. The cells were washed again, counted, and then mixed with TIL586 at the indicated ratio of effector : targets (E : T). Chromium release was measured after 4 h incubation.
  • the peptides were synthesized by a solid-phase method using a peptide synthesizer (Model AMS 422, Gilson Co., Inc., Worthington, OH). Some peptides were purified by HPLC and had greater than 98% in purity. For titration of the ORF3P peptide recognized by TIL586, 586EBV B cells were incubated with various concentrations of the purified ORF3P peptide.
  • Percentage of specific lysis was determined from the equation (A- B)/(C-B) X 100 where A is lysis of 586EBV B cells by TIL586 in the presence of a peptide, B is spontaneous release from 586EBV B cells in presence of the same peptide but in the absence of effector cells, and C is the maximum chromium release.
  • Cold target inhibition of cytolysis was performed using "Cr-labeled 586mel or 624mel cells as "hot” targets and 586EBV B and T2 cells pulsed with peptides as "cold” targets.
  • mutated primers GPMUT1 were used (5'GCCATGGGCAGAGATGATCGGGAGGTCTGGCCCTTGCGCTTCTTC AATAGGACATCTCACTGCAAC) (SEQ. ID NO: 11) and GPA1 to generate a PCR fragment containing a mutation (G to C) at nucleotide 296.
  • the wild-type DNA fragments were ampl i fied by the use of pri mers GPF 1 (5'GAAGATCTGCCATGGGCAGAGATGATCGGGAGG TCTG) (SEQ. ID NO: 12), GPE1 (5' GAATTCGTTG TGT CCTGAGAAATTGCCGTTG) (SEQ.
  • GPE2 (5'GA ATTCGACTATGAGAACCCTCTGGTCACAGGC) (SEQ. ID NO: 14) and GPA1 (5'AAGATCTGGGCC CGGACAAAGTGGTTCTTTTC) (SEQ. ID NO: 15) as indicated by arrowheads in Fig. 3A.
  • the purified PCR products were then cloned into the pCR3 expression vector. All plasmids containing PCR fragments were sequenced to confirm the orientation and nucleotide sequence.
  • Plasmid pcDNA776 was depositied with the American Type Culture Collection, 12301 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, MD under the terms of the Budapest Treaty on January 19, 1996 and was assigned the accession number, ATCC 97423. Since the goal of this study was to identify the epitope recognized by TIL586, fragments as short as possible were used (the truncated form of gp75, instead of full length cDNA) such that the epitope in a relative small DNA fragment could quickly be located. These deletions constructs were then transfected into COS-7 cells together with the pBK-CMV plasmid containing the HLA- A31 gene. (Wang, R.F. et al., 1995, J. Exp. Med.
  • pPCR210 and pPCR220 were constructed, which were derivatives of the pCR3 expression vector and contained an internal ATG codon in frame with gp75 (GATATGG) (SEQ. ID NO: 16) located at 445 bp as a start codon for translation of the truncated normal gp75 protein.
  • pPCR210 nor pPCR220 conferred the ability to stimulate cytokine secretion from TIL586 after co-transfection of COS-7 with the HLA- A31 gene (Fig. IB), suggesting that the epitope was located upstream of these fragments. Therefore, an additional plasmid pD776A was constructed, which contained the nucleotide sequence from 247-442 and did not have any ATG codon in the same frame as gp75, but did contain two ATG codons in different open reading frames relative to gp75. This plasmid strongly stimulated cytokine release from TIL586 when co- transfected with A31 cDNA into COS-7 cells.
  • the plasmid pPCRHO containing the authentic start codon of gp75 stimulated several fold lower cytokine release than did pDel 5 or pD776A when co-transfected with the HLA-A31 gene (Fig. IB). These results suggested that the epitope(s) recognized by TIL586 were located in the region from nucleotides 247 to 442.
  • 586EBV cells were incubated with individual peptide at a concentration of 1 Mg/ml for 90 min.
  • GM-CSF release was measured after co-incubation of peptide-loaded 586EBV cells with TIL586.
  • GM-CSF secretion by TIL586 alone without stimulators was subtracted.
  • S86EBV was a EBV transformed B cell line expressing HLA-A-31 . Cytotoxic lysis of peptide-pulsed 586EBV by T1L586 was done in a 4-h chromium release assay.
  • this peptide weakly stimulated cytokine release from TIL586 only when incubated 586EBV B cells at high concentrations (> l ⁇ g/ml) and did not sensitize the target cells for lysis by TIL586 even at 10 ⁇ g/ml of peptide concentration (data not shown), it may not represent the predominant T cell epitope recognized by TIL586.
  • Fig. 3 A two additional plasmids were constructed containing PCR fragments amplified by primers GPF1, GPE1 and GPE2, respectively (Fig. 3 A). As shown in Fig. 3B, both plasmids containing an ATG start codon at the beginning of the smaller PCR fragment conferred the ability to stimulate cytokine release by TIL586 in association with HLA- A31, suggesting that the epitope recognized by T cells was encoded within an 82 nucleotide sequence between bases 247 and 329 of the gp75 cDNA.
  • Antigenic peptides resulted from translation of an alternative open reading frame of the gp75 gene
  • TIL586 lysed 586EBV B cells pulsed with the ORF3P peptide, but failed to lyse 586EBV B cells pulsed with irrelevant peptide which met the criterion of the peptide binding motif of HLA-A31 , but was not recognized by TIL586 or T2 cells pulsed with the ORF3P peptide. Sensitization for lysis by the peptide showed maximal effect at 100 nM, though lytic activity was detected even at 1 nM of peptide concentration (Fig. 4C). TIL586 did not recognize either peptides MSLQRQFLRT (SEQ. ID NO: 33) or SLQRQFLRT (SEQ.
  • MLLQRQFLR SEQ. ID NO: 36
  • MRLQRQFLR SEQ. ID NO: 37
  • MSLQRLFLR SEQ. ID NO: 38
  • MSLQRQFLE SEQ. ID NO: 39
  • MSLQRQFLR SEQ. ID NO: 40
  • TIL586 only recognized the peptide MALQRQFLR (SEQ. ID NO: 35) with a substitution Ser with Ala at position 2 compared to the peptide MSLQRQFLR (SEQ. ID NO: 9) (Table 2).
  • a plasmid containing the mutated gene (pGFMUTl) was tested for its ability to confer recognition by TIL586 when co- transfected into COS-7 along with the HLA- A31 cDNA.
  • Fig. 3B showed that the mutated gene completely lost the ability to stimulate GM-CSF release by TIL586 compared to the construct containing the wild type gene. This observation indicated that ATG in ORF3 in the nucleotide positions 294-296 was required for translation of the 24 amino acid product, and therefore was essential for generating the T cell epitope recognized by TIL586.
  • TIL586 Since the Met (ATG) is in position 1 of the peptide epitope and the mutation of ATG to ATC at nucleotides 294-296 resulted in a change of Met to He in position 1 of the peptide, the possibility that the loss of recognition of the mutated gene by TIL586 could be due to the loss of the ability of the mutated peptide to bind to MHC class I molecules was investigated.
  • a synthetic peptide (ISLQRQFLR) SEQ. ID NO: 41) with the same amino acid sequence as that encoded by the mutated gene was made and tested for recognition by TIL586. It was found that the synthetic mutated peptide was still recognized by TIL586 at comparable concentrations to that of the wild-type peptide.
  • Example 4 Recognition of the antigenic peptide on tumor cells as well as melanocytes
  • TIL586 recognized a naturally processed peptide which is similar or identical to the ORF3P peptide on the tumor cells
  • the ability of the ORF3P peptide pulsed 586EBV B cells to inhibit lysis of 51 Cr-labeled 586mel in a cold-target inhibition assay was examined.
  • Significant inhibition of lysis of 5, Cr-labeled 586mel was observed by 586EBV B cells pulsed with the ORF3P peptide but not with 586EBV B cells pulsed with irrelevant peptide or T2 cells pulsed with the ORF3P peptide (Fig.
  • T cell clones were generated from the TIL586 cell line by limiting dilution (1 cell /well in 96-well round bottom microplate) and further expanded in culture.
  • T cell clones were generated by limiting dilution (1 cell per well) from the TIL586 cell line. T cell clones were further expanded in AIM-V medium containing 6000 IU/ml IL-2. 586EBV B cells were pulsed with the ORF3P peptide or irrelevant peptide for 90 min at 31°C. After washing three times, T cell clone or TIL586 cells were added and coincubated for additional 18-24 h. For 586 mel, 397 mel/A31 + tumors and melanocyte NHEM680 cells, 1 X 10 s cells per well were incubated with 1 x 10 s cells to T cell clones, TIL586-C1 (Fig.
  • TIL586-C4 Fig. 6B
  • TIL586-C6 Fig. 6C
  • TIL586 Fig. 6D
  • GM-CSF assay was performed as described in Fig. IB
  • Six T cell clones were capable of recognizing 586mel tumor cells, 586EBV B cells pulsed with the ORF3P peptide, and HLA-A31 positive melanocytes, but not 397mel/A31 or 586EBV B cells alone. Representative data is shown in Figures 6A- 6D. These results suggested that T cell clones probably recognized a naturally processed peptide either similar or identical to the ORF3P peptide on tumor cells and normal melanocytes.
  • a computer database search also indicated that no known proteins including tyrosinase, gplOO and TRP-2 in the database contained amino acid sequences with the peptide binding motif of HLA- A31 and significant similarity to the pepude epitope recognized by TIL586.
  • MHL-A31 + transgenic mice are immunized with 0, lpg, Ing, l ⁇ g, lmg or lOOmg of cancer peptide (SEQ. ID NO: 9), intravenously at day zero and day 14 before a subcutaneous challenge with IO 4 Trp-1 + B16 mouse melanoma cells or intravenous challenge with 5 x 10 s Trp-2 + B16 mouse melanoma cells.
  • Mice receiving tumor cells subcutaneously are observed twice a week for tumor development and the size determined.
  • Mice receiving tumor cells intravenously are euthanized on day 12 and the number of lung metastases determined as described by Houghton, A.N. 1994 J. Exp. Med. 180: 1-40.
  • MHL-A31 + transgenic mice are challenged with either 1 x 10 5 or 5 x 10 s Trp-1 + B16 mouse melanoma cells intravenously in order to establish pulmonary metastases.
  • Mice are subsequently vaccinated with a recombinant virus expressing cancer peptide (SEQ. ID NO: 9) at 10 5 PFU/mg body weight.
  • Mice are euthanized on day 12 and the number of pulmonary metastases in vaccinated mice vs. non-vaccinated mice determined.
  • T-lymphocytes presensitized to a melanoma antigen may be effective in therapeutically treating mammals afflicted with a melanoma.
  • T-lymphocytes are isolated from peripheral blood or melanoma tumor suspensions and cultured in vitro
  • T lymphocytes are exposed to the cancer peptide (SEQ. ID NO: 6) at a concentration of 1 ⁇ g/ml alone or in the presence of IL-2, resensitized and expanded in culture.
  • T-lymphocytes exposed to the cancer peptide are administered to a mammal at about IO 9 to 10 12 lymphocytes per mammal.
  • the lymphocytes are administered either intravenously, intraperitoneally or intralesionally.
  • the treatment may be administered concurrently with other therapeutic treatments such as cytokines, surgical excision of melanoma lesions and chemotherapeutic drugs.
  • Patients eligible for the trial must have evidence of measurable or evaluable metastatic melanoma that has failed standard effective therapy. Patients must have tumors that express the TPI-1 antigen as evidenced by PCR or Northern Blot analysis of tumor cell RNA.
  • Patients receive either Ing, l ⁇ g, lmg or 500mg/kg body weight of a cancer peptide (SEQ. ID NO: 6) via intravenously at day zero, day 7 and day 14 alone or in combination with IL2 and/or an immunostimulatory molecule. Patients are evaluated for toxicity, immunologic effects and therapeutic efficacy.
  • a cancer peptide SEQ. ID NO: 6
  • Lymphocytes taken from the treated patients are tested for specific response to the cancer antigen comprising the amino acid sequence MSLQRQFLR (SEQ. ID NO: 6).
  • a complete response is defined as the disappearance of all clinical evidence of disease that lasts at least four weeks.
  • a partial response is a 50% or greater decrease in the sum of the products of the perpendicular diameter of all measurable lesions for at least four weeks with no appearance of new lesions or increase in any lesions.
  • Minor responses are defined as 25-49% decrease in the sum of the products of the perpendicular diameters of all measurable lesions with no appearance of new lesions and no increase in any lesions. Any patient with less than a partial response is considered a non-responder.
  • the appearance of new lesions or greater than 25 % increase in the product of perpendicular diameters of prior lesions following a partial or complete response is considered as a relapse.
  • the following chemicals and reagents were purchased from the sources indicated: RPMI1640, AIM-V media, Lipofectamine, G418 (GIBCO BRL, Gaithersberg, MD); the eukaryotic expression vector pCR3 (Invitrogen, San Diego, CA); anti-HLA-A31 monoclonal antibody (One lambda, Canoga Park, CA); anti-immunoglobulin M antibody conjugated with fluorescein isothiocyanate (Vector Laboratories, Inc., Burlingame, CA).
  • the T cell clones were generated by limiting dilution methods (at 1 cells/well) from the TIL586 cell line, and used allogenic PBL (IX IO 3 cells/well) as feeder cells in RPMI1640 containing 10% human AB sera and 500 IU IL-2. After 12 days, T cell clones were then expanded in AIM-V medium containing 6000 IU/ml IL-2. To obtain an optimal expansion, we used the OKT3 expansion method described by S. Riddell (Walter et al. 1995 N. Engl. J. Med. 333: 1038-1044).
  • T cells were cocultured with HLA-A31 PBL (500: 1, PBL: T cell ratio) and 586EBV B cells (100: 1 , EBV: T cell ratio) in 25 ml RPMI 1640 containing 11 % human sera, 30 ng/ml OKT3 antibody and antibiotics.
  • IL-2 was added at final concentration of 180 IU/ml.
  • the media were changed with fresh media containing 11 % human sera, IL-2 180 IU/ml on day 5. The media were then changed every three days.
  • T cells were harvested, counted and cryopreserved.
  • TIL586 were isolated from the tumor specimen of a patient with metastatic melanoma and grown in medium containing IL-2 (6000 IU/ml) (Chiron) for 32-60 days as previously described (Topalian et al. 1988, J. Clin. Oncol. 6:839-853). TIL586 were predominantly CD8 + T cells.
  • Melanoma cell lines 397mel, 397mel/A31, 586mel, 624mel, 624mel/A31 and EBV transformed B-cell lines 586EBV and 1510EBV were established in our laboratory and cultured in RPMI 1640 medium containing 10% fetal calf serum (FCS).
  • FCS fetal calf serum
  • Normal cultured melanocytes derived from infant foreskin (NHEM680 purchased from Clonetics, CA) were cultured in melanocyte growth medium (MOM; Clonetics, CA).
  • MOM melanocyte growth medium
  • the COS-7 cell line was provided by Dr. W. Leonard (NIH).
  • DNA transfection and GM-CSF assays were performed as previously described (Wang et al. 1995, J. Exp. Med. 181:799-804). Briefly, 200 ng of DNA encoding antigens and 50 ng of the HLA- A31 DNA were mixed with 2 ⁇ l of lipofectamine in 100 ml of DMEM for 15-45 min. The DNA/lipofectamine mixture was then added to the COS-7 (5 X 104) cells and incubated ovemight. The following day, cells were washed twice with DMEM medium. TIL586 was added at a concentration of 1 X 105 cells/well in AIM-V medium containing 120 IU/ml of IL-2.
  • T cell clones only 1-2 X 10" cells/well were added. After 18-24 h incubation, 100 ⁇ l of supernatant was collected and GM-CSF was measured in a standard ELISA assay (R + D Systems, Minneapolis, MN). For testing peptides recognition, 586EBV or T2 cells were incubated with peptides at 37° C for 90 min, and then washed three times with AIM-V medium containing 120 IU/ml of IL-2. T cells were added and incubated for an additional 18-24 h, 100 ⁇ l of supernatant was collected for GM-CSF assay.
  • TRP-2 cDNA was a gift of Dr. Shibahara (Yokoyama et al. 1994, Biochim. Biophvs. Acta 1217:317-321) and subcloned into the pCR3 vector with a CMV promoter for expression.
  • the plasmid pCR3 containing TRP-2 cDNA was digested with Xba I and filled in with alpha-phosphorothioate deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates to block Exo III nuclease digestion.
  • the linearized DNA was subjected to the second restriction enzyme digestion to generate one end sensitive to Exo III Exo III nuclease/Mung bean nuclease deletion was performed according to the manufacture's instructions (Stratagene, CA). All deletion constructs were sequenced to determine the location of DNA sequence being removed.
  • pTA plasmid was a derivative of pCR3-TRP2, in which an Apa I DNA fragment was deleted from the 3' end of TRP-2 gene.
  • pTK was created after removal of a Kpnl DNA fragment from the 3' end of the TRP-2 gene.
  • pTP was generated by deleting an internal Pst I fragment and religation.
  • Cytolysis was determined by use of Calcein AM (Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR). Briefly, T2 or 586EBV B cells were pulsed with peptides in RPMI 1640/5 %FCS for 90 min. Tumor cells and the peptide pulsed EBV B cells were labelled with Calcein AM (15 ⁇ l of 1 mg/ml Calcein AM for every lxlO 6 cells) for 30 min at 37 * C. Following incubation, cells were washed three times with AIM V/120 IU IL-2. lxlO 3 target cells were mixed with T cells at various E:T ratio. After 4 h incubation at 37° C, 5 ⁇ l of bovine hemoglobin quench solution containing ethidium bromide was added.
  • Calcein AM Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR
  • the plate was read by Lambda scan.
  • the percentage of lysis was calculated from the following equation: [1-(A-B)/(C-B)] X 100 where A is the reading of non-lysed cells in the presence of T cells, B is background signal value and C is the maximum signal value from target cells.
  • the peptides were synthesized by a solid-phase method using a peptide synthesizer (Model AMS 422, Gilson Co. , Inc., Worthington, OH). Some peptides were purified by HPLC and had greater than 98% in purity. The peptide mass of some peptides was confirmed by mass spectrometry analysis.
  • T cell clones from the TIL586 cell line by the limiting dilution method (Wang et al. 1996b, J. Exp. Med. 183: 1131-1140).
  • six clones recognized 586EBV B cells pulsed with the ORF3P peptide derived from a gene product translated from an alternative open reading of TRP-l/gp75 gene, and the autologous 586mel tumor cells, but did not recognize 586EBV B cells pulsed with an irrelevant peptide.
  • TIL586-C1 was chosen as one representative for these T cell clones as shown in Fig. 7.
  • T cell clones isolated from the same TIL586 cell line recognized neither 586EBV B cells pulsed with the TRP-1 peptide ORF3P nor COS cells transfected with TRP-1 and HLA- A31 cDNAs, but were capable of recognizing 586mel as well as HLA-A31 + melanocytes (Fig. 7). These results suggested that these T cell clones recognized additional tumor antigens on the 586mel tumor cells. These T cell clones were then expanded to obtain enough cells for screening cDNA libraries or testing other cDNAs for recognition by methods described in the Materials and Methods section (Example 9). One of clones, CTL clone 4, was successfully expanded and used for further studies as described below.
  • Table 3 Specific secretion of GM-CSF by CTL clone 4 is HLA-A31 -restricted Stimulators Cell lines Transfected gene HLA-A31 GM-CSF expression secretion
  • GM-CSF in the supernatant was measured after 24 h incubation of 2 x 10 4 CTL clone 4 cells with either melanoma cell lines or COS-7 transfected with the HLA- A31 cDNA.
  • T cells Since only a limited number of T cells were available, we first tested whether or not these T cells recognized previously identified tumor antigens or melanocyte-lineage differentiation proteins.
  • HLA- A3, Al l, A31, A33 and A68 and their peptide binding motif has suggested the existence of the A3-like supermotif (Sidney et al. 1996, Human Immunol. 45:79-93).
  • a single epitope peptide could cross-react with HLA- A3, Al l , A31 , A33 and A68 molecules which are cumulatively expressed in about 40-50% of the general population. It has been reported that the same peptide epitope derived from Hepatitis B virus nucleocapsid protein could be presented by HLA- A31 and -A68 molecules and recognized by the corresponding HLA- A31 or -A68 restricted CTL (Missale et al.
  • HLA-A31 restricted T cells recognized TRP-1 and TRP-2 epitopes when pulsed onto HLA-A3 positive EBV B cells. Interestingly, weak recognition was detected based on GM-CSF release from T cells. However, no recognition of HLA-A3 positive tumor cells was detected.
  • TRP-2 cDNA Northern blot analyses were performed using TRP-2 cDNA as a probe to evaluate the expression pattern of TRP-2 in different tissues. Normal retinal tissue was shown to be the only positive in the expression of TRP-2 among the normal human tissues tested. The expression pattern of TRP-2 in melanoma cell lines and other cell lines is listed in Table 4 below. Twenty five of thirty melanoma cell lines were found to express TRP-2. The Burkitt's B cell line Daudi and the breast cancer cell line MDA23 1 were negative, in agreement with previous results (Bouchard et al. 1994, Eur. J. Biochem. 219: 127-134).
  • TRP-1 tyrosinase
  • gplOO gplOO and MART-1
  • Table 4 Expression of TRP-2 in different cell lines and human tissues tested
  • TRP-2 TRP-2 cDNA fragment
  • Daudi is a Burkitt's B cell line
  • MDA231 is a breast cancer cell line.
  • EX AMPLE 13 The peptide epitopes recognized by T cells
  • TRP-2 To determine the antigenic epitopes from TRP-2, a series of nested deletions of the TRP-2 gene from the 3' end using Exo III/Sl nuclease as well as DNA fragments encoding the truncated form of TRP-2 were generated. These deletions and subcloned constructs were transfected into COS-7 cells along with the pBK-CMV plasmid containing the HLA-A31 cDNA. Recognition of the transfected COS cells were tested with CTL clone by measuring GM-CSF cytokine release from the CTL clone. Fig.
  • 586EBV cells were incubated with individual peptides at a concentration of l ⁇ g/ml for 90 min. GM-CSF release was measured after co-incubation of peptide-loaded 586EBV cells with T cell clones recognizing either TRP- 1 or TRP-2. GM-CSF secretion by T cells alone without stimulators was subtracted. 586EBV and 1510EBV were EBV transformed B cell lines expressing HLA-A3 1.
  • CTL clone 4 was capable of lysing 586EBV pulsed with TRP2-pl97 and 586mel tumor cells even at low E:T ratio, but failed to lyse 586EBV B cells alone or pulsed with the control peptide ORF3P nor the HLA-A31 negative 397mel line (Fig. 10).
  • the majority of human melanoma antigens identified to date are non-mutated self-antigens and the T cell recognition and binding affinity of these self-peptides to the corresponding MHC molecules has in some instances been improved by substitution of amino acids at anchor residues.
  • a number of synthetic peptides including 8mer or lOmer and modified peptides as indicated in Table 6 were made and tested for recognition by CTL clone 4 when pulsed onto 586EBV B cells.
  • the lOmer TLLGPGRPYR in which one amino acid was extended at the N-terminus of TRP ⁇ .
  • 586mel > 3000 586EBV cells were incubated with individual peptides at a concentration of 0.5 —g/ml for 90 min. GM-CSF release was measured after co-incubation of peptide-loaded 586EBV cells with the CTL clone 4 cells. GM-CSF secretion by T cells alone without stimulators was subtracted. 586EBV was a EBV transformed B cell line expressing HLA- A31.
  • the TRP-2 protein contains two putative copper-binding sites, cysteine-rich regions and a transmembrane domain. Human TRP-2 has been mapped to chromosome 13 while the mouse counterpart has been mapped to chromosome 14 in the region of the coat color mutation, slaty.
  • the 9 mer TRP I972M peptide recognized by CTL clone 4 is located at one of the copper binding sites in the coding region of TRP-2. This peptide most efficiently stimulated cytokine release from T cells compared with other peptides including motified peptides tested in this study. This was in agreement with the predicted HLA- A31 binding motif, which indicates that Leu at position 2 and Arg at position 9 are the favorable residues. Although Leu at position 2 and Arg at position
  • MHL-A31 4 transgenic mice are challenged with either 1 x IO 5 or 5 x 10 5 Trp-1 + B16 mouse melanoma cells intravenously in order to establish pulmonary metastases.
  • Mice are subsequently vaccinated with a recombinant virus expressing cancer peptide, LLGPGRPYR at IO 5 PFU/mg body weight.
  • Mice are euthanized on day 12 and the number of pulmonary metastases in vaccinated mice vs. non-vaccinated mice determined.
  • T-lymphocytes presensitized to a melanoma antigen may be effective in therapeutically treating mammals afflicted with a melanoma.
  • T-lymphocytes are isolated from peripheral blood or melanoma tumor suspensions and cultured in vitro (Kawakami et al 1988, J. Exp. Med. 168:2183-2191).
  • T lymphocytes are exposed to the cancer peptide, LLGPGRPYR at a concentration of 1 ⁇ g/ml alone or in the presence of IL-2, resensitized and expanded in culture.
  • T-lymphocytes exposed to the cancer peptide are administered to a mammal at about IO 9 to IO' 2 lymphocytes per mammal.
  • the lymphocytes are administered either intravenously, intraperitoneally or intralesionally.
  • the treatment may be administered concurrently with other therapeutic treatments such as cytokines, surgical excision of melanoma lesions and chemotherapeutic drugs.
  • EXAMPLE 17 Treatment of Patients with Metastatic Melanoma
  • patients with advanced melanoma are immunized with an antigenic cancer epitope.
  • Patients eligible for the trial must have evidence of measurable or evaluable metastatic melanoma that has failed standard effective therapy. Patients must have tumors that express the TPI-2 antigen as evidenced by PCR or Northern Blot analysis of tumor cell RNA. Patients receive either 1 ng, 1 ⁇ g, 1 mg or 500 mg/kg body weight of a cancer peptide LLGPGRPYR via intravenously at day zero, day 7 and day 14 alone or in combination with IL-2 and/or a co-immunostimulatory molecule. Patients are evaluated for toxicity, immunologic effects and therapeutic efficacy.
  • Lymphocytes taken from the treated patients are tested for specific response to the cancer antigen comprising the amino acid sequence LLGPGRPYR.
  • a complete response is defined as the disappearance of all clinical evidence of disease that lasts at least four weeks.
  • a partial response is a 50% or greater decrease in the sum of the products of the perpendicular diameter of all measurable lesions for at least four weeks with no appearance of new lesions or increase in any lesions.
  • Minor responses are defined as 25-49% decrease in the sum of the products of the perpendicular diameters of all measurable lesions with no appearance of new lesions and no increase in any lesions. Any patient with less than a partial response is considered a non-responder. The appearance of new lesions or greater than 25% increase in the product of perpendicular diameters of prior lesions following a partial or complete response is considered as a relapse. Discussion
  • T-cell epitopes derived from the normal open reading frame of the corresponding non-mutated shared melanoma antigens such as tyrosinase, MART-1/Melan-A and gplOO have been identified.
  • the antigenic peptide recognized by TIL586 was derived from a second gene product of the gp75 gene.
  • T cells recognize an antigenic peptide resulting from the translation of an overlapping open reading frame of the same gene and the only example in eukaryotic cells that two completely different proteins and/or peptides can be translated from overlapping open reading frames of a single cellular gene.
  • the ORF3 of the gp75 gene encodes a short protein of 24 amino acid.
  • the antigenic peptide recognized by TIL586 is encoded by the sequence located immediately behind the ATG (294-296) start codon of the alternative open reading frame.
  • gp75 shares a 40-45% sequence homology to tyrosinase, gplOO and TRP-2
  • co-transfection of HLA-A31 and tyrosinase, gplOO or TRP-2 cDNAs, respectively, into COS-7 cells failed to stimulate GM-CSF release from T cell clones derived from TIL586.
  • a database search did not reveal any proteins that had the HLA-A31 peptide binding motif and significant sequence homology to the peptide epitope recognized by TIL586 and its derived T cell clones.
  • melanoma transfectants (gp757A31 + ) conferred the ability to stimulate GM-CSF release from TIL586, but gp75 melanoma transfectants (gp75 /A31 + ) did not (Wang, R.F. et al 1995 J. Exp. Med. 181:799-804). Similar results were obtained with additional melanoma cell lines (gp757A31 + ). Since the ORF3P peptide was only epitope identified from the gp75 gene and was recognized by six T cell clones derived from TIL586, this peptide may be identical or similar to the naturally processed peptide on tumor cells and melanocytes. This was further supported by cold-target inhibition experiments since this peptide was capable of competing for T cell recognition with a natural peptide on tumor cells.
  • T-cell epitope peptides derived from the frameshift of the mutated adenomatosis polyposis coli (APC) gene in colon cancer were recognized by CTLs generated from vaccinated BALB/c mice (Townsend, A. et al 1994 Nature 371:662).
  • the results in Fig. 3 indicated that the ATG at nucleotides 294-296 was required for translation of the 24 amino acid product which, in turn, was processed to the antigenic peptide recognized by TIL586.
  • TIL586 still recognized the mutated synthetic peptide pulsed on 586EBV B cells, but not the mutated gene when co-transfected into COS-7 cells with HLA- A31 cDNA, indicating that the loss of recognition of the mutated (ATG to ATC) gene by TIL586 resulted from elimination of translation of the ORF3 product.
  • a T cell assay was used to identify the epitope peptide recognized by T cells. This approach is very different from and more sensitive than conventional Western blots or immunoprecipitation analyses. Although there are five ATG codons between the authentic start codon and the start codon of ORF3, the construct pPCRHO covering the N-terminal part of ORFl (gp75), the entire ORF2 and ORF3 (nucleotides 1-667) still retained the ability to stimulate cytokine release from TIL586. The level of stimulation, however, was several fold lower than that stimulated by the 5' truncated (lacking the first 246 nucleotides) form of gp75 (Fig.
  • the T cell clones recognized the ORF3P peptide when pulsed onto 586EBV B cells (A31 + ), melanoma (gp75 + /A31 + ) as well as A31 + melanocytes, but not gp75V A31 + melanoma cells or ORF3P pulsed on non-A31 T2 cells.
  • Another possibility to explain the peptide expression in tumor cells and melanocytes is that the ORF3 may be translated from a separate mRNA transcript(s) generated by an alternative splicing of gp75 mRNA or a different promoter.
  • ADDRESSEE MORGAN & FINNEGAN, L.L.P.
  • CAA TTC CCA AGA CAG TGT GCC ACT GTT GAG GCT TTG 108 Gin Phe Pro Arg Gin Cys Ala Thr Val Glu Ala Leu 25 30 35
  • MOLECULE TYPE CDNA
  • HYPOTHETICAL YES
  • ANTI-SENSE NO
  • MOLECULE TYPE PEPTIDE
  • SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION SEQ ID NO:27: lie Val Arg Arg Asn Leu Leu Asp Leu Ser Lys 1 5 10
  • MOLECULE TYPE CDNA
  • HYPOTHETICAL YES
  • ANTI-SENSE NO
  • SEQUENCE DESCRIPTION SEQ ID NO:30: GACATGT
  • MOLECULE TYPE PEPTIDE
  • MOLECULE TYPE CDNA
  • HYPOTHETICAL YES
  • ANTI-SENSE NO
  • Gly Pro Tyr lie Leu Arg Asn Gin Asp Asp Arg Glu
  • Lys Lys Pro Pro Val lie Arg Gin Asn lie His Ser

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